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As promised, U.S. cuts funds for UN after ‘null and void’ vote

As promised, U.S. cuts funds for UN after ‘null and void’ vote

WASHINGTON — The United States has slashed the two-year budget for the United Nations by $285 million, delivering on a promise to cut spending on the agency after the U.N. Security Council overwhelmingly denounced President Trump’s decision to move the country’s embassy in Israel.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley hailed the decision to negotiate a reduction to the overall 2018-2019 budget as one of “a host of successes” by the U.S.

“(W)e reduced the UN’s bloated management and support functions, bolstered support for key U.S. priorities throughout the world, and instilled more discipline and accountability throughout the UN system,” Haley said in a statement. “We will no longer let the generosity of the American people be taken advantage of or remain unchecked.”

Ahead of last week’s U.N. General Assembly vote to declare the U.S. decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem “null and void,” Haley warned in a tweet that “the U.S. will be taking names.”

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After the assembly voted 128-9 Thursday to denounce Trump’s decision to move the embassy and declare Jerusalem Israel’s capital, Haley and other U.S. officials promised to revisit the U.S.’s role in the organization, including the size of its financial contributions.

“America will put our embassy in Jerusalem. No vote in the United Nations will make any difference on that,” Haley said. “But this vote will make a difference on how Americans look at the U.N., and on how we look at countries who disrespect us in the U.N.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted after the vote: “Given its tendency to be forum for anti-Semitism & anti-Americanism, reevaluation of US role as single largest donor to #UN is long overdue.”

Earlier this year, Rubio introduced legislation to withhold U.S. funding to the U.N. and all affiliated agencies until they stopped what Rubio called “systemic bias and targeting of the Jewish state of Israel.”

Trump also threatened to withhold “billions” in funding from the U.N. member countries that voted in favor of denouncing the U.S.’s embassy relocation.

“We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” Trump said before a Cabinet meeting at the White House last week. “This isn’t like it used to be where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars. We’re not going to be taken advantage of any longer.”

Haley’s statement didn’t specify how much of the reduction would come as a result in the reduction of U.S. contributions. According to PolitiFact, about 22 percent of the U.N.’s funding, or roughly $3.3 billion, comes from the U.S.

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Its’ about time we move that money to somewhere, where it can actually help! We have US citizens here that are living well below poverty that could use a little extra help just living!we don’t really need the UN!

Daniel. With all the welfare hand outs, entitlement programs, ‘feed the poor’ programs and such, i have to call Bull on the “we have so many living in poverty’.
ESPECIALLY when the goal posts for what counts as being in poverty keep getting moved..

Another outstanding win for the Trump team! But let’s not stop there, repossess the property the building stands on, kick the “diplomats” out of the country and don’t pay them another dime.
Then get whoever is running the business while the boss is “pre-disposed” to buy the building, install a golf course, putt putt of course so the liberal lackeys can play, too. Then put the owners sign on the building, 40′ tall so there can be no mistake ~ TRUMP

Also foreign aid tends to help prop up failing socialist countries. Let their socialism fail and the people will create something better. Nearly anything is better. Appoint a king. There you go. That’s better.

And the People of these countries will have better lives as a result.

Often giving a country foreign aid causes the detriment of the People. We’ve known this for years. This is just common sense.

I’ll go a step further. Unless it’s vital to American interests, we should cut foreign aid to each and every country. We have debt. Nobody’s giving us foreign aid. Let Zimbabwe borrow their own money from China. It’s stupid for us to borrow money and then give it out to others. Extremely irresponsible.

I can’t think of any foreign countries at the moment that we should support. The only one supporting vital US interests is Israel, and they don’t need the hand-out. So cut all foreign aid completely.

[I’ll go a step further. Unless it’s vital to American interests, we should cut foreign aid to each and every country. We have debt. Nobody’s giving us foreign aid. Let Zimbabwe borrow their own money from China. It’s stupid for us to borrow money and then give it out to others. Extremely irresponsible.]

AND cut all aid period, to ANY country who refuses to take BACK their citizens we deport, OR who shelter terrorists/fund terrorists, or who’s people BURN OUR flag and president in effagy..

The UN is a disgrace, the nations involved take money from Muslim countries that hate
Israel and join the sinister chorus of jihadists, those votes against America and Israel
were paid for. The corrupt organization is a disgrace and should move to a proper
location, say Syria, Iraq, Iran, the bottom of the Atlantic but out of New York…….William

Hell, use the money to fund building the wall!! That will certainly get some attention, especially with the liberal left. Hey madcow, pelosi, waters.. and others.. pay attention. Trump is taking action. Get used to it.

HOORAY for President Trump! We’ve supported that nest of Communist/Muslim/GLOBALIST vipers long enough. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings if we cut ALL funding to the UN, a useless bureaucracy that gobbles up TRILLIONS of dollars every year–and does LITTLE TO NO GOOD with it, except to enrich the bureaucratic elite that run it. The corruption and waste of the UN is LEGENDARY. No reason we should pour our hard-earned tax money down that globalist RAT HOLE.

We should cut ALL of the $3.3 Billion funding that the USA has been paying. It’s absurd to be giving money to an organization that is actively anti-american! For 7 years I sat in on General Assembly meetings and organization Prep-Cons at the United Nations (in New York, Geneva, Lisbon, Paris, The Hague…) as a volunteer lobbyist. The open hostility and hatred of the USA was not only palpable, it was flaunted almost like a badge of honor.

Music to my ears. At least it’s another step in the right direction. The next step should be to fully pull out of the United Nations and kick them out of New York.

I have said it numerous times in the past and I still say it. The greatest mistake the United States made in the 20th Century was to join the United Nations. The next greatest mistake was to allow it to be headquartered in this country.

I hope the greatest mistake of the 21st Century will not be the United States keeping membership in the United Nations and not getting the United Nations Headquarters out of the United States.

Joseph McCarthy may have been an SOB but if he was still alive, he would be saying; “I told you so!”

This country finally has a president, Republican, Donald Trump,….
This country finally has a president, Republican, Donald Trump, who says what he means and means what he says. This is a noval experience for the American citizens after Bill Clinton and after 8 years of being told mis leading deceptions by a democrat president, Barack H. Obama. After eight years of dissimulation by Barack Obama and his democrat administration its refreshing to find a president who doesn’t parse his words in legalese delivered through his Attorney Generals office intended to deceive and to deliver obfuscator statements. It s a new day and American citizens find this president restoring the faith that was loss by former democrat Presidents who showed a total lack of regard for the American people and the republic form of government where the people and the constitution were once again respected